When night fell, Yuan Xiangxi had not returned yet.
As time passed, Lin Sanjiu felt as if there were a bunch of rats in her chest, constantly gnawing at her and making her restless. She looked down the hillside again and again, but the dark grass and woods remained.
Peaceful and silent, unaware of her anxiety.
She felt that her guess was correct: Li Bao made a copy of J7 and let it enter the play dungeon. She also told Yuan Xiangxi about the great witch, misleading the latter into thinking that she had to stay... But
Isn't this just a way to divert Yuan Xiangxi away? He hasn't come out for so long. Could it be that he is really trapped in the copy?
When she looked away from the woods again, Ji Shanqing asked quietly: "Sister, do you want to find someone?"
Lin Sanjiu was startled.
"No," she hesitated for a while, and finally said, "I don't want to find anyone... I just want to confirm the safety of a friend. Shall we go together? After I know whether he is okay, the two of us will come back.
I can let him go first... to find J7."
With a soft nasal "hmm", Ji Shanqing put his cool hand into Lin Sanjiu's palm.
They climbed over the fence and walked deeper and deeper into the dark woods. Now Lin Sanjiu had no lighting left, so she could only move forward in the dark; she was afraid of tripping over the gift bag.
When she stumbled, she let go of her hand and let herself lead the way, while Gift Bag grabbed the corner of her clothes and followed behind.
...It's hard to imagine that there was a time when the two of them could not stop talking.
She remembered that there were many nights in the past when they were lucky enough to find a safe place to stay, and after they had eaten and drank enough, they fell on the bed and chatted quietly. Even though they spent every day together, the two still chatted.
She was reluctant to sleep - several times she saw that it was getting dark soon, so she pressed Li Bao's head into the pillow and said, "Sleep quickly!".
Now, they walked in the dark for nearly ten minutes, exchanging only a few words such as "be careful" and "there are rocks here".
When Lin Sanjiu groped forward in the darkness, she would occasionally think of Ji Shanqing's metaphor. Sometimes she would suddenly have the feeling that there was really a huge black beast following behind her.
Shadow; starting from the back, every hair, every inch of her skin, and every bit of her mind will be sucked into the abyss behind her, until her entire body disappears.
...Why is there such a change?
In the distance, she saw a blurry wheat field and a dark pond. Beyond the pond, there was a replica house for playing house. She turned around and said to the gift bag, "We're almost there."
Speeded up.
She originally thought that the last conversation in the Consciousness Starry Sky had made Ji Shanqing feel at ease... Could it be that she didn't convey enough? He didn't need to worry that she would leave or forget him; it was his turn
It will always be his, no conditions.
"Do you still remember what I told you last time?" Lin Sanjiu thought about it for a while and then spoke abruptly.
The gift bag said "hmm" again, as if a little aggrieved.
"How could I not remember?" After a while, he whispered: "And I know that every word my sister said at that time is true. I am really happy..."
The tense breath in Lin Sanjiu's chest slowly softened with his voice - until the gift bag suddenly whispered: "...Sister, you have removed the thing that has been pressing me down."
She felt as if a bucket of cold water had been poured on her. Before she could understand her thoughts, her body trembled subconsciously. She didn't know why she was trembling for a moment, so she could only continue to move forward step by step.
As if this sentence means nothing.
What has been holding him back?
On a moonlit night like mist, the wooden hut stood vaguely in the distance. There seemed to be no shadow of Yuan Xiangxi in front of the house, and there were only a few long cicada chirps nearby, which echoed and dispersed. Its sound in the night
Lin Sanjiu began to understand why Bohemia was afraid of this copy - and so on.
She suddenly paused and wanted to look back at Ji Shanqing, but immediately held back.
Yes, if there is any difference between his attitude this time and before, it is that when he appeared this time, he was not afraid at all.
In the past, he was always careful and cautious about gift packages, because no matter whether he turned into a data body or not, there was always something that scared him - he was afraid that Lin Sanjiu would be angry and worried about her reaction, so he suppressed whatever thoughts he had.
Go down...
The more Lin Sanjiu walked toward the house, the more she felt that every step she took was like walking in nothingness, wandering and unable to find the ground. This time, Li Bao was not afraid anymore. Because she promised him last time that he would never
He won't lose her either... Rather than saying that she removed something that was holding him down, it's better to say that she removed something that was binding him. Things that he didn't dare to do before, he dared to do now.
"Yuan Xiangxi!"
As if waves of cold waves were beating against her, Lin Sanjiu couldn't help but run towards the house, shouting: "Are you here?"
Her speed was very fast, and she rushed to the door of the play house dungeon in almost an instant - knowing that she could not rush in at once, she stopped in a hurry. Because she was afraid that the dungeon would be activated, she could only scream.
"Yuan Xiangxi"; but after calling several times, the only response she received was the distant chirping of night birds.
"He won't really be kept by the copy, right?" Lin Sanjiu turned around, looked at Ji Shanqing who was standing not far behind him, and asked: "You know who I'm talking about, right?"
The night was hazy over the wheat fields and distant mountains, and the moonlight was like a brush gently wiping over Ji Shanqing's forehead, cheekbones and cheeks. For a moment, it was impossible to tell where his pale skin was and where it was.
In the light moonlight, only his expression blended into the dark night, making it difficult to see clearly.
"Sister," he whispered, pleading, "I only have such a short time..."
"……how long?"
"Two months," Ji Shanqing lowered his head, like a child being scolded: "Sister, I only have two months..."
"Then Yuan Xiangxi..." Lin Sanjiu's eyes didn't know where to turn, scanning the surroundings over and over again: "Is he okay?"
"Don't he want to go to the Karma Museum?" Ji Shanqing took two steps forward gently and held her hand. "You will find him there."
Lin Sanjiu was stunned and quiet for a while.
Yuan Xiangxi is a dead person and cannot be teleported with a visa, but this should not be a big problem for the gift package... Just let a teleporter catch him. But, when did he disappear? He knows it himself
What happened?
She stood there, turning over and over in her mind for a while, all with a sudden thought that came out of nowhere: She rejected Ji Shanqing's visa because she subconsciously felt that the visa officer hired by the puppet master was
Even better. Now think about it again, where did the visa officer that the puppet master found... come from?
Lin Sanjiu took a long breath and simply sat on the porch steps. The door of the house behind her was still half open like this afternoon, revealing the dark interior without lights.
"Sister?" Li Bao came closer to her.
She raised her head, looked at the extremely familiar person in front of her, and asked softly: "What about me? Where will I be teleported to?"
"You can go wherever you want," Ji Shanqing sat down at her feet and looked up at her like a puppy: "Where do you want to go, sister?"
Lin Sanjiu pursed her lips and said nothing.
One of them sat on the steps and the other sat at the feet of the other. Neither of them made a sound in the cool night. After a while, Libao whispered: "Sister, I will pass your words to Yu Yuan."
"He - what did he say?" She didn't expect that the gift bag would be picked up first, and she couldn't help being surprised.
"He will come to you."
Yu Yuan? Yu Yuan who has become a data body?
...That's right, isn't the gift bag sitting right in front of him? What will happen when he meets Yu Yuan?
Lin Sanjiu's thoughts were chaotic for a moment, and there were many things tugging at her mind. It seemed that she had thought about countless things, but also seemed to think of nothing at all, and could only let her mind wander in the void.
While she was distracted, someone tapped her right shoulder lightly.
The hair all over Lin Sanjiu's body exploded, she twisted her body violently, and even the gift bag was shocked - an overly long arm stuck out from the crack of the door at some point, and its fingers were hovering over her right shoulder.
; Looking along the arm, she saw the long shoulders, collarbone...all the way into the darkness, except for the neck and head.
"What is it?" She jumped up and subconsciously blocked the gift bag behind her, calling out [Tornado Whip] in her hand.
Ji Shanqing poked his head out from behind her shoulder, and as soon as his eyes fell on the muscular arm, the arm suddenly shook slightly - then, it waved its hand in mid-air, and lifted the back of the hand upwards and outwards a few times,
As if signaling them to leave quickly, he retreated back into the house silently.
"Probably to remind us not to sit here and chat without entering the dungeon?" Li Bao guessed with a smile. He tilted his head and whispered in Lin Sanjiu's ear: "Where do you want to go in the next two months?
"
As long as they are far away, Bohemia and the puppet master will probably not be in any danger; as for whether they can come back in the short term, that is another matter. Lin Sanjiu closed her eyes and slowly
Sighed.
"... Wherever you want to go and what you want to do, let's go together and do it together. But before we go, I have a question."
"What?"
"What if it's Qing Jiuliu?" Lin Sanjiu's words seemed to have no beginning or end, but she knew that Li Bao would understand.
Ji Shanqing reached out and grabbed her hand, his smile was like a warm and cool wind. "Sister," he shook his head, as if she asked a silly question.